tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-637299678197896762.post4677426891258747894..comments2023-09-24T09:08:50.636-07:00Comments on Finding What I Am Looking For: Lessons from 3pippasmumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07386184818117314750noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-637299678197896762.post-58054400280550043732010-09-12T18:29:58.100-07:002010-09-12T18:29:58.100-07:00Oh, Pk is lucky to have anything left these days. ...Oh, Pk is lucky to have anything left these days. Bath toys are taken routinely for drinking bath water, the toy she HIT Baby Bean with when I was nursing him yesterday went into the garbage (she didn't mean it but man, was I angry) and the biggest tantrum was over my taking the umbrella away. I know these are battles that have to happen and it will pass but the sheer strength and disdain in her attitude take my breath away ("you CAN'T do that, mummy!" - "oh, yes I can!" being a constant script here these days).<br />I love it that sports t.v. was such a draw :-).pippasmumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07386184818117314750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-637299678197896762.post-77648512870493487292010-09-12T13:28:04.858-07:002010-09-12T13:28:04.858-07:00Yes, three will try the very limits of your patien...Yes, three will try the very limits of your patience and make you find new strategies out of pure desperation and avoiding the ones you know you can't use. Remember that a closed door can be your best friend, and that they can understand consequences well enough now to start losing things they like. This is when we inserted five minutes of sports on TV into the bedtime routine explicitly so we could take it away!kittenpiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05215443551546036909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-637299678197896762.post-55843744226338085812010-09-10T21:57:21.619-07:002010-09-10T21:57:21.619-07:00I hear you! Sometimes I am the worst kind of 3 ye...I hear you! Sometimes I am the worst kind of 3 year old. And lately, my daugher changes her mind all the time... and she's not quite 2!<br /><br />Isn't it fun!?Sabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06366504500666420418noreply@blogger.com